Problems installing Postgres

[yeyo069]

I get this message when trying to emerge postgres-server:

checking for Python distutils module... ./configure: line 7073: 20649 Aborted "${PYTHON}" -c 'import distutils' 2>&-
no
configure: error: distutils module not found

!!! Please attach the following file when seeking support:
!!! /var/tmp/portage/dev-db/postgresql-server-8.4.1-r1/work/postgresql-8.4.1/config.log
* ERROR: dev-db/postgresql-server-8.4.1-r1 failed:
* econf failed
*
* Call stack:
* ebuild.sh, line 49: Called src_compile
* environment, line 3109: Called econf '--prefix=/usr' '--build=i686-pc-linux-gnu' '--host=i686-pc-linux-gnu' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--datadir=/usr/share' '--sysconfdir=/etc' '--localstatedir=/var/lib' '--prefix=/usr/lib/postgresql-8.4' '--datadir=/usr/share/postgresql-8.4' '--docdir=/usr/share/doc/postgresql-8.4' '--sysconfdir=/etc/postgresql-8.4' '--includedir=/usr/include/postgresql-8.4' '--mandir=/usr/share/postgresql-8.4/man' '--enable-depend' '--without-tcl' '--without-perl' '--without-python' '--with-readline' '--with-krb5' '--with-gssapi' '--enable-nls' '--with-pam' '--enable-integer-datetimes' '--with-openssl' '--disable-thread-safety' '--disable-thread-safety-force' '--with-zlib' '--with-ldap' 'build_alias=i686-pc-linux-gnu' 'host_alias=i686-pc-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-O2 -march=i686 -pipe' 'LDFLAGS=-Wl,-O1' '--disable-thread-safety' '--with-perl' '--with-python' '--with-tcl' '--with-libxml' '--with-libxslt' '--without-ossp-uuid' '--with-system-tzdata=/usr/share/zoneinfo' '--with-includes=/usr/include/postgresql-8.4/' '--with-libraries=/usr/lib/postgresql-8.4/lib' '--enable-nls'
* ebuild.sh, line 545: Called die
* The specific snippet of code:
* die "econf failed"
*
* If you need support, post the output of 'emerge --info =dev-db/postgresql-server-8.4.1-r1',
* the complete build log and the output of 'emerge -pqv =dev-db/postgresql-server-8.4.1-r1'.
* The complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/dev-db/postgresql-server-8.4.1-r1/temp/build.log'.
* The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/dev-db/postgresql-server-8.4.1-r1/temp/environment'.
* S: '/var/tmp/portage/dev-db/postgresql-server-8.4.1-r1/work/postgresql-8.4.1'


I'm a newbie when it comes to gentoo and I wanted to know if there someone who can help me with this problem.

[limn]

What version of python are you using?
distutils should be in /usr/lib/pythonx.x/